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EF1 tornado in Hinds County, Mississippi

Tornado March 30, 2022 · Hinds County, Mississippi

EF1
Rating
6.4 mi
Path length
350 yd
Path width
$45K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 350 yards (0.20 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

At the start of the tornado and early parts of the path were a few downed or damaged trees. Tree damage increased a bit along Kimbell Road as the tornado moved quickly northeast. The tornado peaked in intensity in the wooded area crossing Rhoads Creek.

Along N Spring Lake Circle, multiple trees were uprooted or snapped. One home had a large tree down through half of it. The tornado then weakened as it crossed Spring Lake Road and moved along or just south of Davis Road. The tornado dissipated as it

crossed Siwell Road. The maximum estimated wind speed for this tornado was 95 mph.

The wider storm

A strong weather system interacted with an unstable airmass to bring widespread severe weather to the region. There was copious amounts of wind energy in the atmosphere ahead of the squall line to bring down trees and power lines from gradient winds. In addition, damaging winds and tornadoes occurred within the squall line as it moved through Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi.

Began near Midway (32.1673, -90.3886).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

19 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Noxubee CountyEF2 Leake CountyEF2 Forrest CountyEF2 Madison ParishEF1 Holmes CountyEF1 Bolivar CountyEF1 Bolivar CountyEF1 Yazoo CountyEF1 Hinds CountyEF1 Carroll CountyEF1 Madison CountyEF1 Lamar CountyEF1 Lauderdale CountyEF1 Lauderdale CountyEF1 Warren CountyEF1 Hinds CountyEF1 Clarke CountyEF0 Clarke CountyEF0 Lamar County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1034271. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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